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Cataloguing Audrey

Work begins in earnest to restore order to the archive Audrey Amiss kept of the minutest happenings in her life. Like detectives, the archivists search for subtle clues to chronology in the mass of materials.

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Would you like to buy a dinosaur?

Two remarkable letters and a drawing of a plesiosaur by Mary Anning offer a tantalising portal into the exciting world of fossil hunting and discovery of the 1800s.

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Digitising Audrey

Building digital images of what Audrey created means that her work can be frozen in time – for the digital version, at least, the process of decay is halted, and any number of people can view it without the risk of damaging it.

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Artificial intelligence and the dream of eternal life

Until now, eternal life was the stuff of fiction, or in the unknowable realms of religion. But an artificial intelligence that ‘remembers’ the whole of an individual’s experience could be the way to life after death.

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  • Mr. J.C. Stevens Sales Catalogue, Dec 1906
  • Mr. J.C. Stevens Sales Catalogue, Dec 1906
  • Mr. J.C. Stevens Sales Catalogue, Nov 1906
  • Mr. J.C. Stevens Sales Catalogue, Nov 1906
  • W. Morris's book collection sale catalogue, 1898
  • W. Morris's book collection sale catalogue, 1898; Sotheby's
  • Catalogue of books offered for sale in 1579
  • W. Morris sale catalogue, 1898: Sir H. Wellcome MS notes
  • Joseph Pitton de Tournefort. Oil painting, ca. 1900 (?).
  • Joseph Pitton de Tournefort. Oil painting, ca. 1900 (?).
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